Apollyon Author:Robert Stein APOLLYON is the story of one man's struggle with himself, his parents, and particularly with his traumatic experiences in Viet Nam. The lives and psyches of all Viet Nam veterans are distilled in his own experiences there, and focus on his dismay in returning to a nation relatively indifferent to the inevitability of a nuclear "ac... more »cident." It is indeed the story of David Mikhael Abaddon's struggle, after Viet Nam to become whole again, to find love; of his desperate, dramatic plan to force those in Washington into quick and definite active toward the prevention of a nuclear holocaust.
Robert Stein is uniquely informed as to the danger of which he writes. While in the United States Air Force, he served in the U. S. Headquarters in Saigon, and later in Washington. Military duties as a pilot/officer took him to France, to Germany, to the Middle East, to India, and Southeast Asie. More recently he was Professor of Aerospace Studies at The University of Iowa. « less